From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 15 16:27:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22634 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:27:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22626 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:27:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA22764; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 19:26:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: John Polstra cc: krentel@dreamscape.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: file modes in CVS repository In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:38:11 PST." <199812151738.JAA16465@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 19:26:57 -0500 Message-ID: <22760.913768017@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Polstra wrote in message ID <199812151738.JAA16465@vashon.polstra.com>: > The policy, if there is one, is two-fold. Committers should take > care to set the permissions right before they first import a script. > Makefiles must be written to ensure that things will still work if > the permissions are wrong in the repository. I think the FreeBSD project also cheats to a certain extent that we have clean-up scripts that run periodically out of cron and run a find across the repository and ``tidy up'' any bogus permissions. I dunno if they are still in place, but they were the last time I looked (many moons ago) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message